Anti-Jewish riots occurred on June 7–8, 1948, in the towns of Oujda and Jerada, in the French protectorate of Morocco in response to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ensuing the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel on May 14.

[2]: 151 The riots took place a few weeks after a speech in which Sultan Mohammed V, in the context of the recent declaration of the State of Israel and ongoing Nakba, "affirmed Jews’ traditional protected status in Morocco but also warned them not to demonstrate any solidarity with the Zionist cause.

French officials argued that the riots were "absolutely localized" to Oujda and Jerada, and that it had been "migration itself—and not widespread anti-Jewish animosity—that had sparked Muslim anger".

[3]René Brunel, the French Commissioner for the Oujda region, stated that rioting began when a Jewish barber attempted to cross into Algeria carrying explosives.

[4] Brunel wrote that that atmosphere has "overheated" as a result of "the clandestine passage over the border of a large number of young Zionists from all regions of Morocco trying to get to Palestine via Algeria.

"[4] Alphonse Juin, Resident General in Morocco, noted that "the clandestine departure of Jews for Palestine ignited the anger already inflamed by professional agitators.

On May 30, a Jewish father denounced his son, who was among a group of 30 young Jews from Western Morocco, who were passing through Oujda with the idea of crossing into Algeria and making their way to Israel.

On June 6, local Arabs and outsiders, among them a contingent of Nationalist Moslem Boy Scouts, began to lay in large stocks of sticks, stones and cans of petrol in disused premises near the Jewish quarters of Oujda.

On June 7, the Jewish Community formally, and with the utmost urgency, warned the local civil, police and military authorities that there was imminent danger of an out-break of anti-Jewish violence.